Hi there, the Sketch MeXure Plugin is not working with the newer version of Sketch, which has frames and Stacks. Can someone help me with that? I tried a few tricks mentioned in the community forum, but they didn’t work. Any help would be really appreciated
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Hello @panthshah, thanks for joining us in the forum!
Sketch Meaxure is a third-party plugin, and therefore, it was created and maintained by a developer outside our organization. A few weeks ago, we inquired with the developer about its status, and the author told us they no longer support it and won’t work in modern software OS or Sketch versions. See our conversation with the developer here. Therefore, we can’t expect any solution with this plugin anytime soon. Sorry. It doesn’t depend on us.
As an alternative, our Sketch subscription can offer you a better experience, created and maintained by us. Our web Inspector includes options to inspect and copy values and layer properties on the web directly over your designs. As you can see in our documentation, our Inspector offers more tools than Sketch Meaxure, all included in the same subscription price.
I hope that helps!
Thank you so much for your reply , I do understand. For security reasons , we can’t use the handoff thing on the browser, if you have anything which is similar to this plugin or can help me the smooth dev handoff , it would be great. I tried to find it but couldn’t got any leads yet
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Hi @panthshah, could you drop us an email telling us more about your needs and security restrictions?
We’d love to know more about your case so we can look for possible solutions in the future. Please send your message to productsupport@sketch.com
the reasons that I don’t like using Sketch web inspector are: 1. viewers or guests must be a registerd sketch.com user. which creates a poor client experience. 2. the loading speed is very slow. 3.It requires an internet connection. In some cases, we present our design work locally.
In contrast to the Sketch-MeXure plugin, is simply just like "export“ in adobe photoshop or illustration, very efficient.
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Hi,
@JorgeF we have the same problem as @panthshah .
And it’s an existential one for us.
Our clients don’t allow an online handoff process. It is not negotiable and so we got very dependent on the one-and-only maeXture plugin.
The only alternative for us is to do all the measurement and writing every spacing and every colourcode down by hand and export a PNG - the option our clients would force us to establish if we can not deliver the html export zip with maexture anymore - the commercial consequences would be severe for us and the devs would be much less happy receiving these instead of the HTML’s they are used to.
The offline workflow Sketch allows is actually the key-reason why we suggest the tool to our clients in a special area of work and why we use it. And its’s a huge USP and benefit comparing to Figma.
The only bit missing is the html export with an inspectable board, assets and colours. This gap was closed by maeXture for the last 12 years (that’s the time we use this workflow for all our projects).
We were stuck with the version 101.9 until few weeks ago…. Now using the Version of MaeXture available in Chinese with Barcelona with the uncertainty of how this will continue.
I know at least a few other companies and freelancers with bigger teams with the same problem searching for alternatives to Sketch and an offline workflow.
We would love to continue with Sketch and be able to use all the new cool features.
The question we have is - will there be a native function for exporting an offline HTML zip to have an inspectable board including assets like in MaeXture?
thx
Hello @tanci and welcome to the forum!
I’m afraid we don’t have such a tool offline, as developer handoff is part of our subscription as an online offering only. We’re aware of this concern and I’m going to add your feedback internally to the existing pull of requests.
In any case, I’d like to dial in @rodionovd who has studied this case in the past too, perhaps he can give some insight on how the support of this plugin looks like in the foreseeable future. As we said in this topic before, it’s a third party plugin in the end and it doesn’t depend on us wether it’s supported or not.
I must say though (and please Dmitry correct me if I’m wrong) that the latest core features we introduced in Sketch are currently supported so it should be easy (for their developers) to keep support for any plugin that covers these bases already.
Hey there!
As mentioned by Jorge above, we unfortunately don’t provide a first-party alternative to the Sketch Meaxure plugin (and the likes).
We do, however, take backwards compatibility for plugins seriously – meaning that plugins that currently work with Athens, Barcelona, and Copenhagen will likely stay compatible with future Sketch updates. Of course we may inadvertently introduce a breaking change or two, in which case we’ll try to work with plugin developers to minimize the downtime for everyone.